"It is done, then. Bring thine bodies to the pyre and we shall perform the last rites - if thou wish for more of mine services, ask for Phanyx at the altar and we shall oblige you as best as we are able." was all that Eli would have been able to gleam from the time he reached the bar. Still, that one sentence was filled with troves of barely visible information, of connotations and allusions and macabre implications as to the satyr's purpose in Port Samhain. As one of the men known for his combat prowess, should Eli have thought about it, it might have seemed obvious that there tended to be a few too many bodies to simply up and bury - shallow graves would not keep the corpses away from the prying eyes of the law, and hiring people to dig deeper graves was going to cut into the profit that the avarice-stricken masters of the games so desperately craved. Whatever Phanyx could offer seemed to be something that was valuable enough to be less expensive than digging graves - it left plenty to the imagination, but only if one could think of prices that were deeper than gold.

"May the Ashen God's flame burn within thine soul until you too join him in death." Phanyx added, briefly nodding to the barkeep, before taking a swig from a small flask kept by his side - an action his fellow mimicked by taking a drink of his own, though it was likely whatever the satyr was drinking was far more dubious. In a tavern like the one they were in, that was a dire thought indeed. As the barkeep shifted his attention away from the satyr, he simply sat in silence, eyes closed, and his brow furrowed slightly with the thoughts that ran through his mind. There were several rituals to prepare for the cremation of a considerable number of corpses, and there was also the payment to be discussed - if anyone in the tavern was well read enough to have heard of the Cult of the Ashen God (they almost definitely were not) they would know that it was rare for them to accept something as petty as gold. In the world of the arcane, there were things far more valuable to one so evidently and deeply practiced in the esoteric arts that were called magic.